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Panic Attacks in Chronic Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Nicholas Argyle
Nicholas Argyle*
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Cambridge University Medical School, now c/o Physiology Department, MIU, Fairfield, Iowa 52556, USA
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Of 20 patients attending a clinic for maintenance therapy of schizophrenia, seven had regular panic attacks, and these were often associated with agoraphobia and social phobia. Similar fears and avoidance in other cases were associated with paranoid ideas and negative symptoms. The relationship of panic to psychotic symptoms varied greatly. In two patients neuroleptics were associated with an increase in panic attacks.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 157 , Issue 3 , September 1990 , pp. 430 - 433
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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